(7 Apr 2025)
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Doral, Florida – 31 March 2025
1. Wide of El Arepazo restaurant
2. Wide of man walking into restaurant
3. Mid of signage reading: “SOS Venezuela”
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Frank Carreño, president of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce:
“It’s like Chinatown in New York, it’s like Little Haiti, like Little Havana. Well, we also have a conclave that is the Venezuelan community in Doral, and that’s why it’s called Doralzuela."
5. Man entering Venezuelan grocery store Sabores Market
6. Close-up customer examining Venezuela keychains at cash register
7. Wide customers leaving cash register
8. Close book about Venezuelan arepas
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Frank Carreño, president of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce:
"There are many (Venezuelan) families who are here who have TPS and have already settled in the United States, who have American children, who have their businesses here, and to then take this support away from them?”
10. Wide customers at café cash register
11. Close-up of Venezuela stickers
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Frank Carreño, president of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce:
"The impact on small businesses and the community in Doral could be devastating, because considering that we are a community in Doral that is probably 60 or 70% (Venezuelan)—who would stop consuming, who would stop going to karate classes, stop taking their children to ballet, stop taking their children to soccer, who no longer eat in restaurants.”
13. Wide Venezuelan restaurant Sabor Venezolano
14. Employee putting food on plate
15. Waiter taking plate
16. Close phone playing Venezuelan music playlist on Spotify
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilmer Escaray, Venezuelan-American business owner:
“I think that since the measures were taken that TPS was not going to be renewed, there have also been many immigration raids. Many people are afraid to go out, even if they’re legal. They simply don’t go out because they don’t want to have a bad time if they go out.”
18. Wide customer getting ice cream
19. Close religious and ethnic carvings on wall
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilmer Escaray, Venezuelan-American business owner:
"Everyone should be treated individually. If someone commits a crime, they should be deported and go through the proper process, complying with what justice determines. But someone who is doing good, who came to this country wanting to raise their children, wanting to study, wanting to have a job, wanting to become a resident or even a citizen, cannot be denied that opportunity."
21. Cook in kitchen of Sabor Venezolano restaurant
22. Close of Arepas, a popular dish in Venezuela
23. Close of diagram with Venezuelan dishes
24. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilmer Escaray, Venezuelan-American business owner:
"Is it going to have an impact? 100%. Even the streets I think they’ll be empty because it won’t be the same. Doral is going to be different."
25. Mid of Venezuelan flag
STORYLINE:
Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later.
Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the looming end of their legal shield from deportation.
On the start of February the Trump administration ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S. along with hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.
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